“We were just so inexperienced, but the thing I will tell you, our turnovers came at the right time,” Bennett told Ubben. “I thought we became an opportunistic defense.”

“It’s obvious with Robert gone and what we did offensively, there’s a new challenge for us. We’ve got to get stops and become so much better in our consistency level.”

Bennett said that confidence will help the defense moving forward.

“We’d do some things really good, but our tackling was atrocious at times. And I think a lot of that is when you’re unsure of yourself, you don’t play with a lot of confidence. We’ve got basically 9-10 guys that played quite a bit who have bright days ahead,” he said.